Word: weather
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tropic Puerto Rico, only the weather generates as much heat as the island's politics. This year temperatures - and tempers - are soaring unusually high as the result of a rash of fires that began to flare last October, just as candidates were warming up for what promises to be a sulfurous 1968 campaign. All the fires have been traced to the same origin: fire bombs aimed at driving U.S. -owned business out of the Commonwealth. In the past year, arsonists have set 20 fires costing $15.6 million, with department stores and supermarkets the principal targets...
...Kennedy touch" (forward passing legal anywhere on the field) continued on the broad, sloping lawn, with Astronaut John Glenn and then Campaign Bodyguard William Barry taking Bobby's place as quarterback. The children swam in the pool whenever the soggy weather improved. But Ethel Kennedy's best therapy was the exuberance of Christopher, 4, Matthew, 3, and Douglas, 15 months, who, too young to understand what had happened, continued in their usual bouncy style, restoring some feeling of normalcy to the stricken household...
Inclement weather hampered the commencement exercises. As Dean Kathleen O. Elliott reached the letter "m" in the process of calling out each girl's name, the rain began to fall. Mrs. Bunting, who had been shaking each girl's hand and giving her her diploma, asked the class of '68 to decide "democratically" whether to continue the service outdoors in the Radcliffe Yard, or move into the gymnasium. The black-capped girls voted overwhelmingly to continue outdoors in the rain...
...followed this trend through the Fall and Winter campaigns. The cross country team went undefeated for the first time in a decade but the soccer team finished third in the League and the football team was fourth. As the weather got worse so did the record; Harvard won titles only in squash and suffered miserablely in basketball, wrestling, and fencing...
Piston proponents point out that in the past twenty years the race has been won from the pole only three times. Further, the damp, cool weather was made to order for the turbines, and if the temperature reaches 85 degrees on race day, they could lose as much as 20 per cent of their power...